Items with tag “Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference”

October 31, 2009, 12:31PM

In a new strategy to combat deaths from the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, which is especially dangerous to people with weakened immune systems, a top FDA adviser recently announced that the agency will require post-production processing of raw Gulf oysters during warm weather months starting in 2011. The bacteria typically kills 15 people per year. Full story »